YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS
This is exactly the material that artist Pipilotti Rist and architect Carlos Martinze used for covering the entire project area in 2005. Afterwards, the Swiss artist, who is famous for her controversial art installations, equipped the open-air lounge with unusually shaped seating and lounge furniture. Everything covered in bright red, sometimes with a table, sometimes without one. Some of the benches, seats, couches and other furniture are designed with sharp edges, others are gently curved. The City Lounge is divided into various areas like a large outdoor living room: “relax lounge”, “business lounge”, “street lounge”, “reading corner”. The residents of St. Gallen obviously feel very comfortable and at home there. Some mothers unabashedly breastfeed their babies. Bankers dressed in smart suits spend their lunch breaks munching kebabs. Teenagers hang out together. From time to time snack crumbs fall on the floor. Some people spill their drinks. Just like at home. The only difference is there is not a car to play and move about in your living room at home. Children climb on a Porsche as if it were the most natural thing in the world – nobody cares. The reason why no-one takes offence is that the car is also covered with synthetic rubber. Simply everything that is part of the City Lounge is covered with this rugged material. Except the light objects. Like huge hovering pebbles, they hang from steel cables high above the City Lounge. In the evening, they change their colours and illuminate the public space with soft, subtle light. (quoted from Focus)
Inspired by this project, the company Gummiwerk Kraiburg Relastec GmbH also sets new trends in the fields of playground construction and modern urban design, as impressively shown by “Leipziger Leuchten”. The Luminaire Park with a total installation of 115 luminaires demonstrates the company’s wide product range. Extraordinary custom-made luminaires, lighting design for urban spaces and for areas or landscapes of outstanding scenic beauty. In addition, benches, advertising columns and signposts pointing in the direction of the export countries, complement the Luminaire Park.
The luminaires were enclosed by round elements, which were surfaced with the high-quality elastic Kraiflex Insitu covering manufactured by Gummiwerk Kraiburg Relastec GmbH. These comfortable seating elements invite visitors to rest, relax and enjoy their surroundings. The focus of our customers all over the world is on the sensible combination of play and seating elements, as the implementation of a municipal park in Portugal shows. All products are made of soft permanently elastic rubber granulate and are certified in accordance with the latest standards DIN EN 1176 and DIN EN 1177.
